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Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Justices End 96-Year-Old Ban on Price Floors — Striking down an antitrust rule nearly a century old, the Supreme Court ruled today that it is no longer automatically unlawful for manufacturers and distributors to agree on setting minimum retail prices. — The decision will give producers …
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Resegregation Now — The Supreme Court ruled 53 years ago in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated education is inherently unequal, and it ordered the nation's schools to integrate. Yesterday, the court switched sides and told two cities that they cannot take modest steps …
David Stout / New York Times:
Justices Reject Diversity Plans in Two Districts — In a decision of sweeping importance to educators, parents and schoolchildren across the country, the Supreme Court today sharply limited the ability of school districts to manage the racial makeup of the student bodies in their schools.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court strikes down school integration plans, ends Term — UPDATED to 11 a.m. — Concluding its current Term with a historic ruling on race in public policy, the Supreme Court divided 5-4 on Thursday in striking down voluntary integration plans in the public schools of Seattle and Louisville.
Los Angeles Times:Supreme Court strikes down school integration policies
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Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:Death Penalty for Delusional Murderer Blocked
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times: Supreme Court Votes to Limit the Use of Race in Integration Plans
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Ann Coulter Loses It, Calls Elizabeth Edwards A "Harridan" — Boy, it looks like the pressure from Elizabeth Edwards is really getting to Ann Coulter. Seems to be really rattling her badly. Give this a watch, from MSNBC this morning: — Woah. — Incidentally, the Coulter column …
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:Watch Ann Coulter lose it
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Immigration Bill Dies in Senate — Bipartisan Compromise Fails To Satisfy the Right or the Left — The most dramatic overhaul of the nation's immigration laws in a generation was crushed yesterday in the Senate, with the forces of the political right and left overwhelming a bipartisan compromise …
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Klaus Marre / The Hill:
46-53, immigration bill goes down in defeat — The comprehensive immigration reform bill that has dodged attacks from the left and right for weeks, survived "poison pill" amendments, and was once pulled from the Senate schedule failed its most important test Thursday. Passage of the legislation now appears unlikely.
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Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Bush won't supply subpoenaed documents — WASHINGTON - President Bush, in a constitutional showdown with Congress, claimed executive privilege Thursday and rejected demands for White House documents and testimony about the firing of U.S. attorneys. — His decision was denounced as …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
House votes to ban FCC on 'fairness' — The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from using taxpayer dollars to impose the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters who feature conservative radio hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.
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The Raw Story:
'I assume Cheney will get a Katrina trailer,' Republican mocks — A group of Democrats made their case Thursday afternoon to cut all funding for the executive branch office of Vice President Dick Cheney on the floor of the House of Representatives. The move prompted a Republican Congressman …
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Pelosi, Reid plan new push to end war — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) are expected tomorrow to announce a new coordinated effort to force votes in July to end the Iraq war, according to Democratic insiders.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Wall Street Journal morons wonder: Who's behind Hot Air's attack ads? Update: WSJ issues correction — It's come to this, my friends. Having been routed this morning on the Senate floor, the open-borders shills at the WSJ turn, as they must, to vengeful, vintage-nutroots conspiracy smears.
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Jim Romenesko / Poynter Online:
Why WSJ reporters didn't show up for work Thursday — A statement from Wall Street Journal reporters: — Wall Street Journal reporters across the country chose not to show up to work this morning. — We did so for two reasons. — First, The Wall Street Journal's long tradition of independence …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
FOX News Poll: Bush Approval Rating Hits New Low — NEW YORK — Americans are giving bad grades all around. President Bush's job approval rating now stands at 31 percent, the lowest ever in the FOX News poll, and almost twice as many Americans say they disapprove of the president's job performance.
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The Politico:
Around the filter Mitt goes — Hillary has her Hub and now Mitt has his MittTV. — This is what Ben Smith wrote in describing Clinton's efforts to get out her message via her own internal news, well, hub: … Romney is taking similar, if for now less ambitious, steps with his own internal video network.
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